Waldsolms (dpa/lhe) - Eight people were seriously injured in a frontal collision between a small van and a compact van in the Lahn-Dill district. The accident happened on Sunday afternoon on federal highway 456 near the Waldsolms exit, the police said in the evening. For reasons that are still unclear, the 60-year-old van driver turned left into oncoming traffic and collided head-on with the oncoming compact van. The force of the impact threw him off the roadway.
All eight seriously injured were taken to hospitals. There were six people in the van and four in the other vehicle. The main road was completely closed around the accident site for about four hours.
